A Game of Philosophers, Pilgrims, and Poets: The Tape Recorder Trilogy – S3E11

(2015 · Northern India, & 814 – ~1273 CE · Christendom,  Al-Andalus, Constantinople, Cairo, Baghdad, & Rum) 

The Narrator resumes his story, this time with his unexpected guest listening as he works. To amuse himself, he tells stories of his time with al-Khwarizmi, Omar Khayyam, and Rumi, confident those giants of medieval Islamic thought will be new to her.  

Based on the first half of Chapter 10 of End by Geoff Micks.

 

The original Arabic print manuscript of the Book of Algebra by Al-Khwārizmī

 

“At the Tomb of Omar Khayyam” by Jay Hambidge (1911).

 

 

Rumi, by Iranian artist Hossein Behzad (1957)

 

 

 

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Credits: 

Voice Acting – Geoff Micks and Melissa Buttrill

Editing – Geoff Micks

Music – Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixabay

Additional Music – Aleksey Voronin (Amaksi) through Pixabay

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